Iowa Looks to Sweep Season Series against Northwestern

The twentieth-ranked Iowa Hawkeyes will attempt to maintain their winning disposition and will seek to capture their third consecutive victory while keeping their slim hopes alive to notch their third conference championship as they get ready to resume conference play in a showdown against the Northwestern Wildcats. The two Big Ten conference rivals are scheduled to lock horns in the second and last installment of their season series with the matchup set to be contested Sunday evening and live from Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City.

The Hawkeyes have dominated the rivalry of late winning four of the last five confrontations including a 73-63 victory over the Wildcats back on January 9 covering the 3-point spread as road underdogs. The Hawkeyes come in into this game in good form having won their last two games as underdogs including a 74-59 stunner against the then fifth-ranked Wolverines. The Wildcats, who are riding on a three-game losing streak, enter this affair as a 10-point road underdog, according to MyBookie Sportsbook, with the total sitting at 142.5 points.